Monday, December 10, 2007

EcoDeaf or EcoHype?

It’s great to see groups who have concerns about the environment. Everybody wants clean air, clean water, forested mountains, and clean living along with common sense conservation practices. But a recent blog by EcoDeaf discussed a global warming (as supposedly caused by human beings) awareness campaign by linking to a website “Fight Global Warming: Keep Winter Cold!” But looking at that website only caused me at shake my head at all of the inanities. Now, I wonder, are there any deaf/hh Earth scientists on board with EcoDeaf? Is there a group of Deaf/deaf/hh people that discusses verifiable, scientific facts in regard to global warming (as supposedly caused by human beings)? Is EcoDeaf simply a new knee-jerk grassroots environmental organization for Deaf/deaf/hh people to join?

Now, don’t get me wrong. Recycling makes sense. Practicing conservation and requiring efficient use of energy make sense. Fighting local and regional pollution that have more immediate effects on people’s health make sense. But to go out and protest or bring about awareness on global warming (as supposedly caused by human beings) does not make any sense at all because the dynamic interaction is extremely complex and unknown between sun, earth, water, wind, and the land in terms of heat exchanges, latent heat, deep ocean water circulation, climate patterns, upper layer circulation, water vapor (which is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere), the sun’s fluctuating energy output which is cyclical, how precipitation affects temperature which acts as a cooling agent for surface and atmosphere, and so on. Carbon Dioxide is never known to be a climate driver. Ice cores have shown that it was temperature that goes up first, which causes CO2 to rise as well. There are so many problems with this global warming (as caused by human beings) climate scare that people simply do not think but rather prefer to follow lemmings instead without discussing the rational for doing so along with supporting arguments. As a start people can look here about global warming (as not caused by human beings).

I’ll be looking more into this EcoDeaf and I welcome any members of EcoDeaf to discuss this global warming (as supposedly caused by human beings). It’s better to be informed and aware than not.

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